EverHell
December 27, 2002 - 1:39pm — gfair
An amazing article and insight into how EverQuest, the wonderful, immersive 3D world, has turned into a nightmare of power imbalance, players existing only to dump grief on others, customer support so rare and impotent as to border on outrageous, and spending hundreds of hours killing the same creatures over again and again to get a rare item. Wasting hours every day, and being so addictive that people do it willingly. EverCrack, EverHell.
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Everjob
On my delightful weekend before xmas of board meetings on the mountain, I was told a story of a fellow's former co-worker having to be canned because he was playing EverQuest at work ++. The .com warned him again and again, but in the end they had no choice, but to fire him.
I can vid binge, but never more than a rare case of lossing a few important hours of life -- there I go denying the magnitude of the damage. My example of someone letting EverQuest ruin his job upsets me for his sake and others like him. The real madness is this is a very minor example.
Will War Craft World be any different? Or Star Wars Galixies? I hope not, as they will likely be mine and many other people's chocolate.
Chocolate
Chocolate with Heroin, aparently. Not sure if you remember, but a while back there was a girl who died in real life, and the people that played with her decided to have an online funeral.
The other thing that concerns me is grammar. It is appalling (running spellcheck on that one ;) to see the degredation of grammar (or just a random sampling of the english skills of mainstream Americanada?). And now I hear that this grammar is making its way into the projects of students at school.
So ultimately, is the chat room going to spawn a highly compressed dialect of English as generations of these uneducated kids grow up? Scary thought that by the time I'm 60, the most spoken language in the world will be Net.
It's called Newspeak....
So stop your bellyaching... and start goodthinking... (I just love 1984)
;)
As an aside... instant messaging and SMS are what are proliferating this all, including my tendancy to throw in ellipses in everywhere I'd pause in random thought it I was speaking. Gotta stop that.... Or should I say "I must refrain from doing that in the future."